Bowlie Weekender

The Bowlie Weekender was a music festival curated by Belle & Sebastian at the Pontin's Holiday camp in Camber Sands, Sussex between Friday 23 and Sunday 25 April 1999.

The event was the inspiration for All Tomorrow's Parties, a music festival held at the same venue in Sussex every year from 2000 until it moved to Butlin's Minehead in 2006.

As part of the festival's tenth year celebrations, Belle & Sebastian was invited to curate an ATP weekend in December 2010, dubbed "Bowlie 2".^[1]

In August 2019, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first festival, Belle & Sebastian held a third festival, dubbed the "Boaty Weekender".^[2] Unlike the previous two festivals, the Boaty Weekender was held on the Norwegian Pearl cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea (sailing from Barcelona) instead of Camber Sands.^{[3] [4]}

1999 Lineup

The lineup included:

• AC Acoustics
• Amphetameanies
• Belle & Sebastian
• Broadcast
• Camera Obscura
• Cinema
• Cornelius
• Dean and Sean (Dean Wareham and Sean Eden of Luna)
• The Delgados
• The Divine Comedy
• The Flaming Lips
• Vic Godard
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor
• The Ladybug Transistor
• Looper
• Mercury Rev
• Mogwai
• The Pastels
• Salako
• Sleater-Kinney
• Snow Patrol
• Sodastream
• Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
• Teenage Fanclub
• V-Twin
• Bill Wells Octet

DJs

• Jarvis Cocker
• Tim Gane
• Steve Lamacq
• Steve Mackey
• Justin Spear
• Andrew Symington

2010 lineup

The 2010 lineup included:^[5]

• Belle & Sebastian
• Julian Cope
• The Vaselines
• Frightened Rabbit
• Field Music
• Howlin Rain
• Those Dancing Days
• Teenage Fanclub
• Isobel Campbell (with Mark Lanegan)
• The New Pornographers
• Vashti Bunyan
• Silver Columns
• Foals
• Crystal Castles
• Dean Wareham
• Mulatu Astatke
• Edwyn Collins
• Steve Mason
• Dirty Projectors
• The Zombies
• Jenny and Johnny
• Sons And Daughters
• Trembling Bells
• Abagail Grey
• The 1900s
• 1990s
• Best Coast
• The Phenomenal Handclap Band
• Amphetameanies
• Peter Parker
• Them Beatles
• Wild Beasts
• Camera Obscura
• Saint Etienne
• The Go! Team
• Laetitia Sadier
• Stevie Jackson
• Franz Ferdinand (Secret Band)
• Jane Weaver
• Daniel Kitson and Gavin Osborn
• Zoey Van Goey

2019 "Boaty Weekender" lineup

• Belle & Sebastian
• Mogwai
• Yo La Tengo
• Camera Obscura
• Teenage Fanclub
• Django Django
• Alvvays
• Buzzcocks (with Steve Diggle on vocals)
• Japanese Breakfast
• The Vaselines
• Honeyblood
• Hinds
• Kelly Lee Owens
• Nilüfer Yanya
• Whyte Horses
• Tracyanne & Danny
• Alex Edelman
• Propaganda
• Elizabeth Electra
• Campfire Social
• Wet Look
• Wojtek the Bear

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